The tower of sight rises along the entire coast of Salento in a sort of ideal chain of granite sentinels. To protect this outpost of Italy, that, in the past centuries, has been the ambit goal of the foreigners, starting from the Greeks to those nearer, Albanese. The first fortified posts were constructed in the period of the Roman Empire. At the end of '500, it was decreed by the Reign of Naples who governed here, the number of towers arrives exclusively at 400. Planned in order to watch the awe-inspiring felucca of the Saracens, in their emergency, are the true and proper jewels of military building. The tourist could meet near the crowded beaches and repaired mortises as a symbol of history that, from this part, is chronicle of wars, treason, sieges and pirates. What examples? Majestic, those of St. Stefano and Tower of Serpe (in the territory of Otranto), Tower of St. Emiliano and Tower Minervino, which dominates the inlet of Port Badisco. One continues with the research of towers of Tricase, Tiggiano, Alexano and of Omo Morte, who resisted Leuca. To then pass to the ionic towers like the Pali Tower, wrecked in the middle of the sea, Tower of Mozza and Tower of San Giovanni (Ugento), the spectacular towers of the Four Columns and that of the Upper Nard.